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by Wilduck 15y ago
This is really cool, but I'm curious what the performance implications are when doing fuzzy matching? I noticed that the list of types of errors did not include transposition. I wonder if the reason for this comes down to performance/techni
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It was a bad joke on the fact that a purported owner of Megaupload is the artist "Swizz Beatz".
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Those examples are good. Now that we have people's attention, it's time to go full "PR". > No jargon. No big words. Make it relatable. Don't talk down to them but do educate them on the issues, not technology. My take-away: tell stories
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> I suspect many here will find it to be a thoroughly enjoyable page-turner that they'll be unable to put down. This was not my experience at all. The first few times I tried to read this book, I blocked out a few significant chunks of
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I'm not sure how this is a koan [1]. It's a clever turn at the end of the story, but I'm pretty sure I understood the meaning through rational thought. Am I missing some key contradiction/ambiguity? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8D
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by Wilduck 15y ago
They would notice, but they wouldn't be interested. Their response would probably be something along the lines of "I hope this gets taken care of quickly so facebook can go back to normal." The cool thing about the profile picture idea is t
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by Wilduck 15y ago
But lifespan and reproductive lifespan are different. Suppose we could live to be 1000, but only reproduce from ages 15 to 65. Then the equilibrium number of years per generation would be right around 40.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Sure that would be nice, but the penny-arcade guys have worked very hard to create a charity organization of this size. I would guess that many of the people who donate to child's play wouldn't have donated that money elsewhere. People ofte
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I've also found that taking notes is extremely helpful when I'm trying to understand something. Especially when I'm reading on the computer, where it's so easy to open a new tab and do something different. However, every time I've tried to
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by Wilduck 15y ago
>Being on the lookout for that would not be inhibited by knowing the names of three people who did it. Only in the sense that you might think you're avoiding the entire problem by only avoiding these people.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
You would not believe what some of my co-workers have achieved in Excel and VBA. Complete scheduling systems that tie in to three databases, complicated code that analyzes metal removal. And they don't consider themselves programmers. The l
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I agree. The reason I'll drop into R instead of python is often that I need to do some complicated analysis like adaptive multivariate integration over hypercubes ( http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cubature/index.html ) or general max
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I've been sitting in a hotel lobby for literally 24 hours over the last two days. There have been two different news stations playing this entire time. I have heard news coverage of all sorts of topics, but nothing discussing SOPA. In fact,
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Gmail has become nearly unusable on my 11" Macbook air. I wouldn't mind it so much if you could A) minimize the top bar or B) have it not scroll with the page. However, as far as I can tell, these aren't options.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This article has a valid message that basically boils down to "correlation does not imply causation." While the discussion centers around the problems with making decisions based off of aggregate statistics, the underlying theme that having
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I use CarbonEmacs [1] on my Macbook. The default 'meta' is the cmd key, which I prefer, as it's closer to what I'm used to on other keyboards. I also remap (globally) caps-lock to be a second ctrl. [1] http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emac
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that we phrase it as "gifted". While I was also in a "gifted" program that was completely worthless, my High School also offered classes that were designed for students who wanted to be high achievers. You did
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I have tried on many occasions to get a better understanding of the complexities involved in Domain Name registration, resolution etc. There are a lot of different pieces, legal, bureaucratic, and technical, that seem to go in to my ability
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I don't own one and I didn't get it at first, but after riding one I definitely saw some of the appeal. They are very fun to ride in a "I'm totally connected to this bike" sort of way. If you also take off the hand brake, then there's an ad
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I grew up playing a lot of educational games. Some of them were great, others not so much. My favorite by far though, was The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis [1]. It was fun, and it wasn't forceful in trying to "teach" things, but it did f
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I disagree. I would say there is a distinction between an error and a bug. There's certainly some grey area there, but, for example, if my code sets permissions for a directory instead of a file, I made an error. If my code sets permissions
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by Wilduck 15y ago
The difference is that the doodles are not coercing people into action. If you remember, there was a significant backlash when Google added the seemingly sweet "call your father" reminder on Fathers' Day. I can't imagine that this would be
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It's good that we've recognized many of the problems with education. However, simply recognizing them isn't enough. I think that in this post you've highlighted the next step. I'd love to see a slew of articles that talk about different tes
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by Wilduck 15y ago
There is a keyboard macro counter, which I've been able to use in situations like this. It's described in the manual[1] and on this Stackoverflow question[2]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Keyboard-Macro-Cou... [2] http://
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I have a suggestion for this specific article. I like that it's short and sweet, but I think it could have used a mention of the C-x e e e e e e pattern. I find myself using this all the time to do medium difficulty refactoring on a section
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by Wilduck 15y ago
You're qualifications also include using the name HilbertSpace [1] on Hacker News. Seriously though, I've recently graduated from an undergraduate institution where the mathematics courses were rigorous and proof based. While I thought I wa
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by Wilduck 15y ago
That's understandable. I agree that tabs would work much better than spaces with a proportional font. However, in the case of Python PEP 8 states that you should use 4 spaces. Not doing so will make it very hard to collaborate with other de
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It does if you're using Python...
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by Wilduck 15y ago
My concern for using a variable-width font is knowing how deeply indented I am at any point. With a fixed-width font, I can simply look up and see how many characters deeper I am compared to the previous line. I don't know how that would wo
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by Wilduck 15y ago
My not so technically inclined mother just purchased an iPhone to "keep up with the times." Her biggest difficulty with it so far is figuring out how to move around within any application, specifically going back. It's hard for her to reali

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